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  1. Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominican-British author Jean Rhys. The novel serves as a postcolonial and feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre (1847), describing the background to Mr. Rochester's marriage from the point-of-view of his wife Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress.

  2. Wide Sargasso Sea takes Bertha and gives her a voice, a history, heck—an entirely new name (in Rhys' version, Antoinette is Bertha's real name; Rochester renames her as just one of his acts of unpleasantness). In Rhys' novel, Antoinette/Bertha enters what is more or less an arranged marriage, a contractual agreement between Rochester's family ...

  3. Wide Sargasso Sea What is "post-colonialism"? The field known as "Post-Colonial Studies" gained recognition as an academic discipline in the 1960s, the same decade in which Jean Rhys penned Wide Sargasso Sea.

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  5. Mar 11, 2018 · Katie Ashmore-Marsh in Literature on 11 March, 2018. The postcolonial novel deals implicitly and explicitly with ‘the ideas of nation and nationhood’, regarding the struggle of nations after colonial control is relinquished to regain a sense of their own nation and for the population a sense of nationhood. However, Wide Sargasso Sea, though ...

  6. Sep 1, 2014 · A Postcolonial R eading of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. Res. Asst. Neşe Şenel. Erciyes Universit y, nesesenel@erciyes.edu.tr. Abstract. Despite the fact that the story retold in Wide Sargasso ...

  7. Wide Sargasso Sea has generated heated debate among these literary critics, resisting easy categorization within the context of twentieth-century fiction. As a postcolonial work, the novel indicts England's exploitative colonial empire, aligning its sympathies with the plight of the Black Caribbeans.

  8. Study Guide. Key Facts. Previous. At a Glance: Full Title Wide Sargasso Sea. Author Jean Rhys. Type of work Novel. Genre Postcolonial novel; reinterpretation; prequel. Language English, with bits of French patois and Creole dialect. Time and place written Mid-1940s to mid-1960s; England.

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